TWC at it again

[unome]

now they want to have sole owership of .weather domain - I've pretty much tuned them out since their take-over of Weather Underground & complete fail of naming winter storms - I hope they are stopped from getting this

if anyone out there knows of a way that we peons can voice an opinion to those who decide, please share that


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/cap ... t-address/

“TWC’s operation of .weather as a “closed domain” would stifle
competition and restrain trade, run afoul of ICANN’s Code of Conduct and New
Registry Agreement, and cause substantial material detriment to the Professional
Weather Enterprise Community,” writes Barry Myers, AccuWeather CEO.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... es-it.html

For local meteorologists like Johnson, the expansion is particularly worrisome. They fret that it won’t be long before the Weather Channel is able to replace them entirely, with local anchors throwing to TWC headquarters in Atlanta for a customized forecast. “We are essentially cutting a check to our competition,” says Johnson. “I don’t know if enough local broadcasters recognize that it is the competition, but they are. When big weather hits my market, I want all the eyeballs watching me.”

“We could soon be seeing the merger of the local into the national,” says Kevin Selle, the chief meteorologist for Texas Cable News in Dallas and the host of Weather Brains, a popular weather-related podcast. “A lot of these local broadcasters are going to be blindsided by it.”

[jasons2k]

The sad thing is the majority of the population now has no clue when they are getting bad information, so this kind of thing is not only tolerated, it's becoming encouraged just to save money. In that vein, it's no different than journalism. The result has been a lowering of standards, professionalism, & accurate reporting, and the few that know the difference are not important or vocal enough to matter any more.